while Peter stayed outside by the gate. Then the other disciple went back out, spoke to the girl at the gate, and brought Peter inside.

Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard when one of the High Priest's servant women came to him and said, "You, too, were with Jesus of Galilee."

But he denied it in front of them all. "I don't know what you are talking about," he answered,

Peter was still down in the courtyard when one of the High Priest's servant women came by.

But he denied it. "I don't know...I don't understand what you are talking about," he answered, and went out into the passageway. Just then a rooster crowed.

They arrested Jesus and took him away into the house of the High Priest; and Peter followed at a distance.

When one of the servant women saw him sitting there at the fire, she looked straight at him and said, "This man too was with Jesus!"

But Peter denied it, "Woman, I don't even know him!"

"Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. "I am he," he said. Judas, the traitor, was standing there with them.

"I have already told you that I am he," Jesus said. "If, then, you are looking for me, let these others go."

After they had eaten, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these others do?" "Yes, Lord," he answered, "you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Take care of my lambs."

Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, "I will never leave you, even though all the rest do!"